A Sample Reading with the Great Granddaddy of Tarot Spreads Years ago I came across Mary K. Greer’s wonderful article, “The Oldest Spread, by le Comte de M***.” She offered a fascinating peek into the first recorded tarot spread. All…
Harlequin Romance Covers Major Arcana The topic for the fall equinox blog hop is “Harlequin Romance Tarot” or, for those in the UK, “Mills & Boon Tarot.” Jay Cassels of Sacred Healing and I co-wrangled this hop. My contribution to…
Two Ways To Develop a Tarot Spread Without a Question Last week we explored tarot questions that can be used when you don’t have a question. This week I’m sharing two ways to develop a tarot spread without a question.…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! Le Roi Est XIII Our wrangler for this hop was Jay Cassels of Metaphysical Angels, who offered us the topic, “Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!” or, “The King is Dead, Long Live…
A couple weeks ago at the Denver Tarot Meetup, the group was divided into pairs to practice the techniques our presenter taught. I ended up being paired with someone brand new–which is my preference so I can help them out,…
This is part 3 of my weekly series on addressing the frustrations I heard from the attendees of a talk I did for a meetup group a few months ago. The participants described their tarot holdups as: Reading clearly for yourself…
Karen Sealey of Pure and Blessed Tarot offered us an odd but intriguing topic—the word “may.” Of course, that’s the current month, and our holiday in folk traditions is often called Mayday. So after working with the topic from a variety…
Often tarot teaching focuses on specific symbols in the cards and what they mean. Certainly, the particulars of historical usage of a common symbol in religious iconography, alchemical woodcuts, Renaissance art, or other divination symbol systems can enlighten us to…
A colleague of mine who is a tarot reader emailed me with a couple questions recently. “What do you do about a client who just asks a general ‘what do I need to know?’” “What about someone you read for but…
Riker Saw Himself as if Dead Guinan was wrong. After making extensive repairs, the Enterprise headed towards Wolf 359 to re-engage the Borg after it had assimilated Captain Picard. While they raced to the battle, Guinan confronted Riker in the…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
It was nearing the end of the day at the Isis Books psychic fair this month when someone I knew from the store sat at my table. “I am overcome with the urge to buy a tarot deck and I…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
We all have those cards that we hate to see come up in a reading. These are the difficult cards. For me, it’s often based on the image used in a particular deck–I had a Two of Cups in one…
I love writing formal poetry. I love the way my intuition opens up when the rigid guidelines of meter and rhyme keep me focused. I love how a perfect line spills out of me in response to the limitations of…
This post is what I’ll call a Blog Dialogue. Another blog I read inspired this response, which I’d like to share with you. At our last Tarot Blog Hop, tarot colleague and friend Jordan Hoggard wrote a blog on his…
A common thread that has come up in both my tarot classes and Reiki classes is, How can we help others when we have so much healing to do ourselves? As passionate as we are about sharing our gifts, the…
Two different questions. Two different decks. Two single card draws. Six of Cups both times. My first memory of the Six of Cups is from my Barbara Walker deck–first deck I ever got, back in 1991. That card, Childhood, showed…
